Agenda has partnered with an LA-based e-commerce platform to offer a new digital component to its trade show experience that will be available 365 days a year. It will preview at the Long Beach and Las Vegas shows.

Target has listened to consumers and stopped selling Mario Batali product online after he admitted sexually assaulting coworkers. Batali stepped away from his business, which includes Westfield Century City's new Eataly.

Fashion has no greater current fixation than Millennials, the Holy Grail of luxury and fashion brands; whose highly personal style is the subject of the latest book – released in time for Christmas - by Dolce & Gabbana.

For investors in Australia's Westfield, its $16 billion (£12 bn) sale to European property giant Unibail-Rodamco may mark a turning point for an industry under pressure to reinvent itself amid fierce online competition.

Europe's top online-only fashion retailer Zalando is stepping up its fast-growing brand partnerships programme, building on ties with the likes of Nike and Superdry to repel the challenge of U.S. interloper Amazon.

Shares of Australian shopping mall giant Westfield Corp rose as much as 15% on Wednesday, their biggest single-day gain, after the company said it would accept a $16 billion takeover offer from France’s Unibail-Rodamco.

Activist investor Land and Buildings on Tuesday reiterated that Canadian department store operator Hudson’s Bay Co’s real estate assets were worth substantially more than the company’s current market valuation.

Pointy, a Dublin-based firm, is solving the problem of how to make it easier for people to find products they want close to home, as shopping online gets easier but locating what you want locally remains elusive.